Re: Investigation software snoops through social networks - Techw orld.com

That is why the next stage of the internet will require massive strengthening of democracies. We will need to slowly proceed towards a Swiss like complete participation of everyone in the polis. The potential for abuse is can be defused only in a completely p2p system.

Just my .2 €

Henry


On 24 Mar 2010, at 15:12, Len Bullard wrote:

> Not new news Karl or even particularly innovative technology.
> 
> Like it or not, this kind of work has been the point of the web from the
> beginning for some early supporters, at least once they separated their own
> networks from it.  Social networks simply make it a lot easier by using
> self-identification of traits somewhat like Match.com.  Those who don't like
> this are advised to get off the network except with the increasing reliance
> on these silos, you become like those who don't want credit cards (why pay
> someone to use your own money - convenience) and public telephones (where
> are those today?).
> 
> Privacy has been willingly swapped for ease and access, and ... the customer
> is always right.
> 
> len
> 
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> [mailto:public-xg-socialweb-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Karl Dubost
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> Subject: Investigation software snoops through social networks -
> Techworld.com
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> 
> We will love our social network future. Our data in silos ;) 
> Well, it depends where you are on the cable. 
> 
> In Investigation software snoops through social networks - Techworld.com
> At
> http://news.techworld.com/applications/3214195/investigation-software-snoops
> -through-social-networks/
> 
> Hone works in tandem with NarusInsight. By Nucci's 
> own admission, however, it can do some pretty 
> "scary" things. The software's user creates a 
> target profile, and Hone then proceeds to link 
> what Nucci calls "islands of information." Hone 
> can analyse VOIP conversations, biometrically 
> identify someone's voice or photograph and then 
> associate it with different phone numbers.
> 
> "I can have a sample of your voice in English, and 
> you can start speaking Mandarin tomorrow. It 
> doesn't matter; I'm going to catch you."
> 
> It uses artificial intelligence to analyse emails 
> and can link mails to different accounts, doing 
> what Nucci calls topical analysis. "It's going to 
> go through a set of documents and automatically 
> it's going to organise them in topics. I'm not 
> talking about keywords as is done today, I'm 
> talking about topics," he said.
> 
> That can't be done with today's technology, he 
> said. "If you search for fertilisers on Google... 
> it's going to come back with 6.5 million pages. 
> Enjoy," he said. "If you want to search for 
> non-farmers who are discussing fertiliser... it's 
> not even searchable."
> 
> Hone will sift through millions of profiles 
> searching for people with similar attributes, 
> blogger profiles that share the same email 
> address, for example. It can look for 
> statistically likely matches, by studying things 
> like the gender, nationality, age, location, home 
> and work addresses of people.
> 
> Another component can trace the location of 
> someone using a mobile device such as a laptop or 
> phone. Bit by bit, it pieces together the 
> subject's different identities on the Internet.
> 
> Narus is still testing the waters with Hone. 
> Working with a consortium of universities, the 
> company has used Hone to sift through massive 
> amounts of public information. "We started to 
> collect data three years ago and we've gone 
> through several programs," Nucci said. "We have 
> something like 75 million users in our system." 
> With the permission of users, Nucci's team also 
> analyzed data on about 50,000 private profiles.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Karl Dubost
> Montréal, QC, Canada
> http://www.la-grange.net/karl/
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